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The Madurai territory medication clamped prohibitory orders successful the temple municipality of Tirupparankundram precocious Wednesday evening amid protests by Hindu outfits to licence lighting of the Karthigai Deepam lamp astatine the ‘dheepathoon’ (pillar) atop the hill, adjacent to a dargah, arsenic directed by Justice G R Swaminathan of the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court.
High play continued till 9 p.m. erstwhile equipped with an bid passed by the justice successful a contempt of tribunal case, the litigant and members of Hindu organisations, accompanied by CISF unit from the High Court, arrived to spell atop the elevation to airy the lamp. However, Madurai City Police Commissioner J. Loganathan, citing the law-and-order concern and the imposition of Section 163 of BNSS (Section 144 of Cr.P.C) successful the Tirupparankundram portion by District Collector K.J. Praveen Kumar, stopped the petitioners from entering the secured area.
Mr. Loganathan informed the petitioners that earlier successful the evening the Hindu organisations had created hostility successful the country by gathering successful ample numbers and trying to harm nationalist properties, which led the territory medication to clamp to walk the 144 order.
“To power the assemblage and to guarantee bid successful the area, we person prohibited anyone from entering the elevation itself,” helium added. Further, helium said the authorities has filed an entreaty against the azygous judge’s bid and hence the constabulary cannot licence them to spell the hills , truthful they could not licence anyone until the substance was taken earlier the court.
However, the petitioners and those accompanying them, refusing to heed the police’s direction, gathered astatine the location, pleading to beryllium allowed to airy the lamp.
Earlier, adjacent to 600 members of Hindu Munnani, BJP, and different Hindu organisations staged a protestation extracurricular the HR&CE bureau adjacent the temple area, condemning the State authorities for not allowing them inside.
The ‘Mahadeepam’ was, however, lit atop the hillock arsenic accustomed adjacent the Subramaniaswamy Temple astatine Tirupparankundram.
Earlier, taking a superior presumption of the information that the absorption of the Subramaniya Swamy temple successful Tirupparankundram did not airy the Kathigai Deepam astatine the Deepathoon astatine 6 p.m arsenic directed by him, Justice Swaminathan permitted the archetypal petitioner to instrumentality 10 different persons on with him including the different petitioners to spell up the elevation and airy Kathigai Deepam astatine the Deepathoon.
The tribunal was proceeding the contempt petition filed by Rama. Ravikumar of Madurai territory who contended that nary arrangements had been made for lighting the Deepam and that the bid of the tribunal was going to beryllium breached. On December 1, the justice had directed the absorption of the Subramaniya Swamy Temple, Tirupparankundram, to airy the Karthigai Deepam astatine the Deepathoon, too astatine the accustomed places.
When the substance was taken up for proceeding astatine 5 p.m., the State submitted that the contempt petition was premature. The substance was past passed implicit to beryllium heard astatine 6.05 p.m.. The tribunal took into relationship that the Deepam had been lit astatine the Uchi Pillaiyar Temple astatine 6 p.m.. But determination has been nary lighting of the Deepam astatine the Deepathoon, arsenic directed by him.
Justice Swaminathan said the cardinal rights of the petitioner were involved. “Rule of instrumentality is astatine stake. The State medication has decided to cock a snook astatine the court’s order. Merely admitting the contempt petition and issuing statutory announcement volition not service the purpose. On the different hand, defying the bid of the tribunal would nonstop a precise atrocious signal. It would promote the officials to indulge successful specified behaviour successful aboriginal also. That would dependable the decease knell of ideology itself,” helium said.
“It appears that the Executive Officer representing the temple unsocial had filed the entreaty and that excessively successful a defective format. I americium impelled to deliberation that the filing of the entreaty by the temple successful a defective format is simply a ruse to disobey the bid of the court,” helium said.
According to him, the State has not filed immoderate appeal. “The Dargha which tin beryllium said to beryllium the aggrieved idiosyncratic successful the ineligible consciousness of the word has not obtained enactment of the court’s order. The temple absorption aft filing the papers had taken them back. It is existent that 30 days clip is disposable for filing the appeal. But connected that ground, the behaviour of the officials cannot beryllium condoned. There are moments erstwhile the tribunal has to instrumentality the telephone to instrumentality due measures to enforce its order,” helium said.
The Judge said it was not beyond the powerfulness of the tribunal to guarantee obedience of its bid by directing the enactment to beryllium done by immoderate idiosyncratic appointed for that intent alternatively of enforcing its bid by imprisonment, the tribunal observed.
He past directed the Commandant of CISF Unit, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court, to nonstop a squad of CISF Personnel to connection extortion to the petitioner and his associates successful carrying retired the court’s order. The tribunal posted the substance for reporting compliance to December 4.
